The visual and narrative elements of the duplicity of self, time, and ornate framing are meant to be able to be interpreted in many ways. My personal take on the work is the idea that every individual has multiple versions of themselves - different potentials, intentions, aspirations - that are often constrained by a unifying identity as well as the impossible ideal (the frames representing the perfection and idealization of art) of achieving all of these self-variations at the same time. However, throughout time, all of these possibilities have a chance of manifesting if the unifying, holistic self is backing them. Thus, time and selfhood, self-actualization, are both limited and limitless as functions of one another.
